Yesterday I found an incredibly convincing fake of a ragepost (on Lemmy - couldn’t find it again so sourced it from Facebook). Reverse analyzing the details revealed that the selfies were modified to increase duckface, a pile of cigarettes were added for the narrative, and an accompanying news report screenshot was expertly modified using two different articles and changing many details. I can’t in good faith believe any social media meme after this:
Ooof I normally think I’m good at catching these, but took the bait on this story.
The only thing that seemed slightly off when skimming was her use of a cafe style/glass ashtray on the centre console, which would be completely impractical for someone who is “always smoking in the car”.
I think the post you saw on Lemmy must have gotten removed or deleted. This comment I found seems to be debunking the same post but the link button leads to a blank page. I do wish there was an archive of removed/deleted Fediverse content for reference purposes (with a reasonable level of censorship, such as omitting illegal content and personally identifying information). I think I saw another post on Lemmy of the same misinfo less recently than a day or two ago but I couldn’t find that post.
Does there exist means to identify which deleted/removed post the comment in the screenshot was from or means to view that post as it was prior to its deletion/removal?
Mods typically include a post’s content in the mod logs.
Click the three .s under a post/comment on the right side, a drop-down should allow you to see what was logged for that post’s removal and all other mod actions for that user.
An article on the subject
Yesterday I found an incredibly convincing fake of a ragepost (on Lemmy - couldn’t find it again so sourced it from Facebook). Reverse analyzing the details revealed that the selfies were modified to increase duckface, a pile of cigarettes were added for the narrative, and an accompanying news report screenshot was expertly modified using two different articles and changing many details. I can’t in good faith believe any social media meme after this:
All the selfie captions are fake.
Ooof I normally think I’m good at catching these, but took the bait on this story.
The only thing that seemed slightly off when skimming was her use of a cafe style/glass ashtray on the centre console, which would be completely impractical for someone who is “always smoking in the car”.
Thanks for doing the legwork that one got me
This is considered incredibly convincing?
I think the post you saw on Lemmy must have gotten removed or deleted. This comment I found seems to be debunking the same post but the link button leads to a blank page. I do wish there was an archive of removed/deleted Fediverse content for reference purposes (with a reasonable level of censorship, such as omitting illegal content and personally identifying information). I think I saw another post on Lemmy of the same misinfo less recently than a day or two ago but I couldn’t find that post.
There are publicly available mod logs at the bottom.
Does there exist means to identify which deleted/removed post the comment in the screenshot was from or means to view that post as it was prior to its deletion/removal?
Mods typically include a post’s content in the mod logs. Click the three .s under a post/comment on the right side, a drop-down should allow you to see what was logged for that post’s removal and all other mod actions for that user.
The screenshot is from searching comments local to Lemmy.world. There are not three dots anywhere around the comment on that page. I’m also on mobile, and tapping a username to see their specific modlog actions apparently doesn’t work.
Oh, you do have to be logged in, look at the comment from your instance.
That was fake?!
Great work! I did think that news article was a bit too perfect of an ending
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If your brain doesn’t automatically reject information provided this way (screenshots cobbled together) I’m not sure what to say.
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A good first step heh ;)
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Some of you need to completely get off the internet or at very least take some media training.
I’ll make whatever commentary I want. Don’t like it? Feel free to block me. 👋
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No. I mean media training in the “how to spot fake shit on the Internet” sense. It’ll help you keep your sanity at the very least ;).